You will find (I hope) plenty of other videos charting the camp's history out with On the Buses.but this channel is dedicated wholly to On the Buses hence why it sticks to the subject matter. The clue is in the channel name.

Many thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it! Try out the plethora of other locations videos and live locations visit videos all On the Buses-related.

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Thanks! 😃

As I understand it the houses had been condemned and were riddled with damp.

@ Damp is an issue in just about every Victorian house to some extent. All damp, even extreme, is treatable in Victorian early solid wall construction or later cavity. Post-war ideological planning considerations condemned many Victorian properties rather than untreatable damp or suspect ‘blitz’ damage as often touted in the 1940’s, 1950’s, and even into the 1960’s.

The music you speak of was written by Tony Russell and is called 'Moving Bus'. It was also used in another hit LWT series Catweazle.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1Thank you! I’ve been looking for that tune for while now lol

I agree about it being a great snapshot about life on the buses back then but let's not downplay how funny a sitcom it was and still is.

@OntheBusesDatabase1 I meant exactly that , working on the buses was as funny as the show.

Thank you very much!

Glad you enjoyed it. No news on Pontin's as I fully expected.

You are very welcome

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Yes already covered here:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5fRlaR-rbmdf8U

Glad you enjoyed it.

Searching randomly online on estate agent sites for Prestatyn houses for sale with spiral staircase feature and finally found it.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 AWESOME! great job!

Back in it's heydey in the 1970s it had a very good reputation and was very popular. Fred Pontin's baby so to speak and he paid for it's upkeep. The slippery slope began in the late 1970s when Fred sold up and it became a cash cow for other companies who did not wish to pay upkeep fees.

Check out the many other vids on the other films and all seven series and the live locations visits. Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it. Other videos cataloguing the other films and all seven series filming locations too.

It was as was some scenes from The Sweeney.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 Thanks for your reply and for all your blogs really enjoy them happy new year.

Yes. It is the part with destination board that definitely looks wooden and fake.

Eastern National certainly had some form of single deckers which could be used to mimic a Lodekka with a false upper deck added. We know this as it was a trick used for series seven depot scenes. LWT's new South Bank Studios (used in series seven) was inferior to their old Wembley Studios in one way in that it did not have tall enough bay doors to allow a Lodekka to drive onto the depot set. They had to improvise using single decker buses with a fake upper deck lowered onto it from hoists once on set.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 I cannot see any in series 7 where this was the case. What is interesting in last episode the vehicle the driver gets in (which is the only time one purports to drive out of the 3rd engineering bay and there are luxton and district logos behind the drivers cab on the behind staircase panel. when it is switched to being outside on the road that logo isnt there and the luxton and districts are on the lower side panels, with a white NBC logo preceeding them. Most of the time the first engineering bay has an apparent complete mock up front forward facing with a route 10 displayed, in one episode it shows a route 8 (cannot tell if reg number is the same) and one time it is rear facing with a rear body view on it. Again the 1st bay varies generally a front view, sometimes a rear one, which shows a nice attention to variations , even when (2nd or 3rd bay) ones are shown through the windows of the single deck Bristol (LH , SU or MW) vehicle - which itself is not in every episodes studio interior view..

@@highpath4776 have a look to all of the depot set scenes in series seven. Buses parked up by curtains are all single decker buses with false upper decks lowered from hoists - a known fact as Lodekkas could not make it into the studio due to bay doors being too short.

Yes I would definitely say so.

No not the L Bus. Only series seven episodes were filmed south of the Thames.

Some are left out because they are repetitve with another identical angle already covered before. And you will find they use the same footage of bus leaving or approaching the depot as it saved film for what, in all honesty, just a filler shot.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 been checking and cannot see one in colour of that manoevre with that coach parked up and the timber co side view.. ( but might have missed one from S1 or S2)

No it didn't.

Yes the bus certainly seems to be in the ownership now of the London Transport Museum. It is intermittently on show there and at other transport museums arond the country and is occasionally seen at bus rallies.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 I cannot remember the exact numbers , I had a photo of Mike's one in the grounds of the farm, I think Mike ended up with a S and a K (which was different to the ex Clapham Muesum/London Transport Collection K) but would have to check my less accessible HCVC London Brighton Programs.

Indeed but in the same place which is key when pinpointing locations. As to when concrete lamp posts were fazed out and replaced by metal lamp posts I would say in the 1980s with the majority of it completed by the first half of the 1990s.

Far more families have cars nowadays and some are even two car families. Also though roads were often cleared so filming could take place.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes onlysurrounding buildings (some) on Chiswick High Road remain which helps pinpoint locations. Thanks for your memories.

My pleasure!

Yes if you watch frame-by-frame very closely you can see the wheels of the trolley he lay on beneath his coat.

Thanks for the info. I take it you live very locally to this location? I hope you enjoyed the video.

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 I did enjoy the video, Thanks. The old ones were removed by a friend who did Woodford council landscaping work many years ago. I lived not far from there for a while until moving to Heartfordshire.

@DeanoEssex near Borehamwood?

@@OntheBusesDatabase1 No, the other side Welwyn & Hatfield way 🙂

Yes I know of those but they are too far afield to have covered in this walking tour. To walk to those would have taken around 20 minutes to walk there and 20 minutes back.

@OntheBusesDatabase1 It's sad how the area's have changed so much. As a kid we used to go to Southend on sea from that Eastern National Depot Route 251. Loved the Holiday on the buses video you made I'm so sad that pontins camp has now gone for good I made a video there about 20 years ago. Prior to the opening of the LWT studio on the south bank where was otb filmed before

Glad you enjoyed it

I am afraid Pontins camp has closed permanently now so that trip would not be possible:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5fRlaR-rbmdf8Usi=NTUPp9bgLwLJQMXT